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In which I get a little Marxist in the cause of minimum government 27 Aug 2013 | 02:20 am
**** This is quite a difficult thing for me to write - partly because I'm stepping out from the areas where I'm comfortable with my knowledge but also because it challenges a more or less universal m...
Transforming Finance Charter - the worst sort of 'curate's egg' 26 Aug 2013 | 10:51 pm
**** It all starts so well the Transforming Finance Charter: The banking sector needs to be transformed in the following ways: There should be no bank in the system which is too big to fail, so the...
Things anyone who has played Kingmaker will know... 26 Aug 2013 | 01:42 am
**** Alex Massie - to the point as ever - has this to say: Moreover, if there is a geographical dividing line in British politics is should probably be drawn above the Trent not the Tweed. This is ...
The predicable consequences of taxing alcohol... 26 Aug 2013 | 12:40 am
**** Eventually people start dodging those taxes - and the results are dangerous: Magistrates fined the owners of the BED club in the Grand Arcade (Gatecrasher Clubs and Bars Ltd) £5,000 with £2,095...
On the barriers to employment... 16 Aug 2013 | 05:24 pm
**** And something of a reminder. But first those barriers: The workings of the welfare system (the ‘benefits trap’), where wages were lower than what could be received from out of work benefits. T...
A good example of 'nudge'. It's also a cracking idea. 16 Aug 2013 | 12:10 am
**** Most of the left-wing world (and plenty of the Tory world too) thinks that 'nudge' is about pricing, taxing and regulating the hell out of things so as to make people change their behaviour. As ...
The prohibitionists now want fruit juice to be called wine... 15 Aug 2013 | 10:48 pm
**** There is no end to the nannying. Now they want the EU to "redefine" wine to include drinks that don't have alcohol in them: Earl Howe, the health minister, claimed that the market for low or re...
NHS consultation - sustaining the secret society that is the NHS 14 Aug 2013 | 11:46 pm
**** NHS England is: ...seeking your views to help shape the future of general practice services in England. On the face of it, this is brilliant. And they say that they wish to: ...to stimulate d...
Cash for Bags! 13 Aug 2013 | 10:54 pm
**** I just love this: In a city driven by consumers' voracious appetite for the newest and latest luxury products, handbag-driven loans are a lucrative business. Yes Lady takes a purse and lends cl...
Quote of the day... 13 Aug 2013 | 01:13 am
**** On the "gulf" between rich and poor: Actually Neill, never in human history has there been a smaller percentage of humanity living one failed harvest away from communal starvation. Is the divid...
